Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 15, 1881, Page 4

'HE OMAHA DA]LY BY The O'maha Bee Published every morning, except Sunday, Che only Monday morning daily, TERMS BY MAlL:~ One Year. ... 210,00 | Three \Ium,h- m m Six e, 500 | One TdE WEEKLY BEE, published ev- TERMS POST PAID One Year.... Bix Mon CORRESPONDENCE to News and Editorial mat- @ations relating % Lors wid be addressed to the EniTor o¥ 'l‘m v BUiI\ SS LETTERS—Al huqu.‘:- nittances Onana P . Drafts, Cl office’ Orders to be made order of the Company OMATA PUBL!SHING 00., Prop'rs E:ROSEWATER, Editor. yable to the Tuere is no such thin competition’ b which the public can ha ance for the future, Tue Vienna theatre disaster is stimulating the New York police to an enforcement of the law against the overcrowding of theatres. Tit: meanest explanation we have heard of the slow progress of the movement is that it Mrs. Colby woman suflra has been taiked to death. has the floor. Dakora is making oxtensive arations for entering statehood. A Dakota judge has just sentenced a wife murderer to be hanged on the 13th of January next. Me. BrecHeErR says a protective tariff is organized immorality.” There wasa time when the general impres- sion was that H. W. B. was a good specimen of disorganized morality. prep- TruiNors asks for twelve or fifteen places at the disposal of Col. Brown- low, dyorkeeper of the house of rep- resentatives. Nebraska will be satis- fied with a night watchman's place. For a man who has been up to his ears in the conspiracy to rob the tax- payers of Omaha in the Holly swindle the editor of The Herald is decidedly indiscrect in agitating the water works question, Jupae Cox seems suddenly to have wakened to the feeling that the dig- nity of his court room must be pre: served. A small boy was ejected the other day for applauding a denuncia- tion of Guiteau, —_— Fears are now entertained that New York's white elephant, the Brooklyn bridge, will fall down before completed. Another million of dol- lars of pocket money are needed by the bridge trustees. Evenry caller upon President Ar- thur is now required to stato his busi- ness to Private Secrctary Davis. What an encyclopedia of office-seck- ers’ woes Davis will be after three years of such an infliction, ViLLAgD, of the Northern Pacific, promises the completion of the line by September, 1883, There will be a lively competition about that time for the Montana trade between the Union Pacific and its northern rival, ARTHUR could not remain in the New York custom house, so he has taken up quartorsin the White House, Riddleberfler cannot be sergeant- at-arms of the senate, but he is going to sit in the seat cf a senator as soon as that of Senator Johnston expircs by limitation. Tue Philadelphia Press puts its forcibly in this wa; “If the repub- lican majority dodges the pension quos- tion for fear of votes, votesatthe next election will dodge the republican majority for its lack of moral courage, Cowardice always leaves men in the minerity of their own convictions.” Tux brother-in-law of the assassin of thelate President Garfield is ovi- dently as anxious for notoriety as the assassin, His attempt te create a sensation by mounting the lecturers' rostrum destroys what little respect or sympathy he was entitled to as the legal defender of the cheeky wur- derer, A vew days ago The Herald called attention to the fact that the Holly pumps at Burlington had thrown sev- eral streams to a height of 239 feet, which Dr. Miller in a vein of irony thought was a marvellous feat for the Holly swindle. Now Dr. Cushing's coparcener ridicules these dress parade exhibitions and clamors for steady streams from the reservoirs, Axoruer telegraph company has just-been organized in Chicago, This corporation under [ the name of the Chicago & 8t Louis Board of Trade Telegraph company proposes to con- nect the 8t. Louis and Chicago board of trade by special wires for the trans- action of all comwmercial business between these two boards. The capi- tal of the corporation is $1,000,000, The early completion of the South- ern Pacifie railrond naturally unn. 8 a great deal of interest on the Pa const, The owners of the Central Pacitic are algo the owners of this new outlet and the completion of that enterprise is expected to brin, me very radical changes in over land traffic The managers of the Southern Pa cific express the opinion that their road will not seriously detract from the Central Pacifie, It widl ¢ untry and i-tropical fruits of Southern n up a new part of the nfford a new market for the se California, and above all become a an route for wort of Cali competitor with the o carrying the wh The runt time for tween San Francisco and Joans will be about nine days and the time of steamer between New Orlean: and Liverpool, sixteen to twenty days and for sailing vessels forty-fiv Allowi ing and reshippir days six days detention for load at New Orleans, shipments between San Francisc Liverpool will require about thirty three days by steamer and sisty days 1, against one hundred by sailing ve and fifty days by the present around Capo Homn, route It is estimated that next yearat | least one-third of the California wheat crop will bo shipped ovorland by the Southern Pacific. This traflic has never been carried by the Central and Union Pacific and therefore will in no way effect these roads. The advantage of shipping Califor- nia grain to Burope by way of New Orleans is manifest. Tt takes five or six months now for California dealers to deliver their product in the European market and that compels a liberal margin for thoe risk they run of decline in prices as well as the cost and risk of insurance, The opening of the Southern Pacitic will have a tendency to divert the immigrationthat now crosses the conti- nent by way of the Union Pacific to the New Orleans line. Tt is expected that the new steamship lines between Laverpool and New Orleans will carry foreign emigrants at very low | and the managers of the Southern Pu- cific announce their intention to bring these people to California at almost any price. The pre in a recent interview foreshadewed the policy of his road on immigration rates as follows: “We expect to bring immigrants — lots of them. We look for a great re- vival in immigration to this state, and are going to do our part to secure it. We agres to give one-fourth of the funds required by the immigration bu- reau, and we expect to put rates of passage for immigrants 8o low that we shall secure them by thousands. If we had a load of them at Now Orleans to-day and could get but $10 a head to bring them through we should bring them along. If we conld mnot get them for that we should put the rate lower. If one rate wor’t secure immigrants we shall adopt an- other. We don't want them for what we can make out of bringing them, but what they con- tributo to our business after they get hero and settle. Every person brought to the state and induced to settle here contributes to the business of the rail- road in one way oranother. No one understands that any better than we do, and we hope and expect yet to do the transportation business of 3,000,- 000 inhabitants of this state. T can't give you any figures in fregard to im- migrant rates becauso we don't yet know what may be neccssary, but weo shall put the rate low cnough to in- duce the immigration, which is more essential to our success than that of any other enterprise,” It is self eyident that the Union and Central Pacific will not bo able to compete on California imungration with their southern rival. As an offsot to this loss the rapid sottlement of Californin will bring about increased traflic and travel, which, although divided among four or five rival lines, will atford an am- ple come for all of them. Inany case there is a fair prospect that the dizeriminations and extortionate rates to which the patrons of the Union and Central Pacific roads have been subjected, will soon conso. lent of the road OUR HATUHALIZED CITIZENS, Nearly 700,000 immigrants are landed yearly upon the shores of our country with the idea of making it their home and partaking of the privi- leges of citizenship. Of this number fully 100,000 aunually announce their intention of becoming ns and take out first pupers. During the last five years the largest single nationality represented 1 our hsts of immigrants have been Germans, many of whom have come to America to oscape the burdens of military conscription and engage in a life where the best years of their prime is not forfeited to the maintenance of a standing army, To a more limited degree the)same is the case among & number of other nationalties where military conseription is the rule, Our government has always main- tained the position that the declara- tion of an intention to become a o zen entitles the applicant for natural- ization to all the privileges of citizen- ship with the exception of the elective franchise. To all intents and pur- poses such persons are American citi- zens and under the protection of the national government. THE EOUTHERN PACIFIC. Il yrmer subjects of the emperor fornia to Enrope, | cane This principle has lately been called | William returning to their old homes have been ssized for military duty, A vigorous correspondence between the (rerman government and the state de- partment some months ago settled the question according to the demands of Secretary Evarts, and fited for all time to come, as far as Germany is anding of our Ger concerned, the man naturalized citizens. More re- tly Secoretary Blaine has been forced to deal with the ce wme question in cases pending before the Spanish Americarn which in- volves the \ commission principle of nat commission i ition, This pposed of an American and a sanieh representative, and an um wedigh min In the one Pedro Buzzi the umpire e in the person of the istor, Count Locwenhaupt. has assumed the right to go behind the decree of the court which granted Buzzi naturalization, and to decide that the man isnot a eitizen of the United States. One hundred soven cases have been umpired by M. Bartholdi, the by Baron Blane, french minister, and the diplomatic rep 1d to in the absence of resentative of Ttaly, The the doctrine that, e to prove fraud, Spain had evid no right to question the validity of Americun anted by a citizenship feourt; that the tribu- the United States are interpreters of the laws of the and that of the commission has competent nals of the sole country; the umpire view their adjudica- no power to tions, There be actod upon by the commission, and the new umpire undertakes to allow Spain to challenge them on the pre- tense that the claimants possess no e yet forty cases to and | pressure® which is s 35,000, wrestle lalong with twelve, wicked place Denver must be. —_— OUR WATER WORKS. The fact that the first fire hydrant test, made two fally up to the standard required by the contract, ]m]vulnt(un of manages to What a causcd a good deal of speculation as to the efficiency of the works for fire protection. matter of fact the dress par- ade exhibitions of the power of direct As a pressure to throw vertical streams to extraordinary heights are a mere shain and delusion. They were gotten up by Holly for the purpose of imposing on the ivnorant and cred nlous. The throwing of f ur, six or cight streams of water to a vertical height of several lundred feet by di- reet pressure at a given point while all the mains are shut off ble test of what a water works system can do in a great fire bl e tost is afforded by re is no relia A much more rel voir ady and sure. When protection to the highest buildings in such pressuce affords ample our business eontre and upon the higher levels on Capital hill, it is all that could reasonable be asked. But the admirers of hi dress parade exhibitions ave at last atiied by the late tests, The requirements of the contract are more than fulfilied so far as these high pressure displays are concerned. Tn due time we shall also he ve more sub- stantial proof of the capacity of the water works by a test of the reservoir pressure upon which this city must rely for ordinary protection. Chief Consulting Engineer Cook, who planned our water works, confidently predicts that the reservoir pressure been title to American citizenship This extraordinary decision Secrectary Blaine refuses to accept, and demands that these remaining cases shall be tried under the terms which brought the commission into being, and that the rules which governed in other cases shall govern in the cases yot to be disposed of. He takes the ground that, when a court compe- tent to the purpose confcrs the right of citizonship, there is no power in the exceutive department to remove its judgment, and no such power can be permitted to be exercised by a mere commission, Holding to this opinion, Mr. Blaine instructs the government attorney, Mr. Durant, not to consent to have any case referred to the um- t ate pire wherein the question of the ¢ due a legal naturalization certific may be inyolved. This vigorous action on the part of Mr. Blaine is equivalent to a with- al of all such cases from the com- mission unless Count Loewenhaupt sces proper to make his decision in accord with those of his predecessor. The position taken by Mr. Blaine cannot for a moment be receded from is essential dra by our government. It to the wmaintenance of the national policy on a question which is vital to the interests of our country and in the highest degree important for the protection of our naturalized citizens. ONE of the most dangerous monopo- lies in this country is the Standard il Company which controls with re- lentless grip the petroleum trade of the United ;States and dictates terms and prices to all merchants handling oils in the country. A sample of their methods was lately shown in;Meriden, Mississippi, where a merchant re- fused to sell Standard oil and furnish- ed that of a rival refinery to his cus- tomers. After numerous threats to destroy his business unless he con- sented to comply with their demands, the Stanaard company reduzed the price of their oil to all other dealers in Moriden, enabling them to sell pe- troloum at a figure ugainst which they believed the obstinate dealer could not compete, But the citizens of the place refused to pur- chase Standardoil, They perssted in still trading at the store of the mer- chant selling the rival article and ap- plauded his pluck by purchasing the petroleum of other makers at a higher price than they could procure the oil of the Standard company elsewhere in the town. Finding this move balked the Standarl company opened a store in Moriden directly opposite the little shop-keeper and stocked it with a full line of goods suitable for country trade, which they put down to less than wholesale prices with the avowed intention of breaking up in business their obstinate opponent. At last ac- counts this dirty scheme had failed to effect the desived] result, as the peo- ple of Meriden pluckily rofused to trade at the Standard store, even with {Tie nducement of a fine line of goods and astonishingly low prices. What the mext move of the monopoly will be remains to be seen. Such disre- putable and petty methods of business are creating an antagonism to the cor- porations’,which 18 certam to make il self folt in severo restrictive le tion at the hands of the p Ev incident like the above shows the fal {lacy of the wnonopoly plea, that all thoy waft ix to be permitted to do| business like overy other merchant, and under the swme laws of fuir play and freo competition, Dexvin is groaning Lecause, with a population of 50,000, she has only in question in Germany where the thirty-six policemen, Omaha, with a will throw six or eight large streams to a hight considerable above the roof of Boyd's opera house. That will af- ford ample and reliable protection to every business house in Omaha and every residence on Capitol hill. In other respects our water works are not only ample for every require- ment for domestie use and manufac- turing but the consumers are supplied with as pure, clear and wholesome water as can be found in any other city in America. The obstacles en- countered by high water and delays incident to a rainy and varmble sea- son have necessarily delayed the com- pletion of the works, but inasmuch as the city is fully supplied with wator and amply protected against five, the delay can be borne without loss or in- convenience. We have no dis- position to urge a premature ac- ceptance of these city authoriti On the contrary, we belleve it tobe the duty of our mayor and city council to enforce the contract with the water works com- pany and protect the city against any possible future loss. works by onr ! The men engaged in this risky and costly enterprise are, titled to fair and decent treatment, and the parties that were engaged in the outrageous scheme to rob the tax- payers of Omaha by imposing the Holly water works swindle on them should be the last to find fault or grumble. These corrupt jobbers donot seem to know when they are well off. With reckless disregard of all de- cency they and their chief backer, the editor of The Herald, are waging ma- licious warfare on the mauagers and owners of the water works. Their conduct is as impudent as it has been dishonest. For some time past THE Bee has been in possession of the proofs of their infamous conspiracy. Their, insolent course compels us to unmask them. When the true history of this conspiracy is presented to our citizens these cheeky frauds will ceaso their slanders. St PavLand Minne apolis are wrest. ling with the paving problem. A let- ter just published in St Paul from a contractor who is furnishing granite to oneof the street railway lines of Chicago, contains the information that he receives $2,90 per square yard for his material on board of the cars at Chicago. 1t is estimated that it will cost thirty cents per yard to deliver the granite at Minneapolis, which would make the cost of the raw material §3.20 per yard and to prepare the street and lay it down would make the final cost of granite pavement at Minneapolis four dollars per yard. It would hardly cost more to transport a carload of stone from Chicago to Omaha than it does from Chicago to St. Paul. A proposi- tion for a substitute for stone appears in the Pioncer-Press of last Monday which we deem worthy of reproduc- tion, There arrived recently in Minneap- olis and St. Paul an agent of what is he International Paving whose specialty is the wanufacture of a brick of uniform size for paving purgoses, the ingredi- ents of which are limestone crushed into fragments of about the size of a pea, and asphalt, in, the proportion of 85 per cent of | the former to 16 of the latter. It is claimed for this material that it is as durable as granite, that no objection- | able noise results from its use, that i | presents a firm footing for animals, is h.z hard upon their feet, causing searcely more abrasion (unhmunr to wheels thanan_ordimary wood p ment; that, being of uniform h a scetion of the bricks may at .my time be removed and re onvenience 1 pipe-laying and re- pairing, and that, finally, it can be laid down at a cost not exceeding wecks ago, was not | pressure | hovever, en- K laced for | E: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15 1851 3 per cent of that of ordinary granite, This material is being ex- tensively used in Providence, R. 1., is being laid in New Otleans, and a scction of it has been put down opposite the Windsor hotel in New York for trial ce the arrival of the agent in Minnesota he hina put downa cross-walk of his bricks on Wabash street opposite the custom house, and will probably do the same in Minneapolis if 80 requested, If this pavement possesses the ad- vantages claimed for it, it is possible that the paving problem is settled for St. Paul and Minneapolis. 606 2.5 STATH JOITINGS. Scotia retains the connty seat of Gree. ix hundred men are on the B. & M pay 101 at Plattsmonith, k nty has ex - ended some 210, Frrnas o 000 in bridges this year, vl for nouth, The Journal eri a merchant flourts g m 11 at Plitt November ter the district t Lincoln county £1,100, attsmonth Jouroal shows culy we of prosperity by enla i The 1 ffrs o sion and coavietion o the murderer of Henry ‘axton, The county at Kearney tocked with ply of | The jail has been vacant for mwonth The wose off it heing isoners, ut four y are oblized to depend alr ntirely on’ corn for fuel, 1o coal bei nable, The Rev, J, G, Tate, the Wood Z has” comfessed his \wkwin S8 rawing from thoe tial upon the elders deciding to admit athidavits of the mmt-l maging character. He's a rotten Tate(r) and should be plaated dsep, Louisville is a lively burg. es, doctors, Last week a man named Lamon had both arms dislocated and his face figured b jumping from a wagon lshind arunaway team Another n med Alber- tine h d “is head cracked by a chunk of coal fulling on him. reity of eoal in the interior of an_impetus to prospecting companies. Mr, R. M. Needhaw, of Loup City, Sherman county, has put hased the lastext improved tools in the east, and will risk time nd labor in experimental holes in that coufty, The prospect hole in Nance county, near the junction of the Cedar and Loup rivers, is sufticiently ad- vanced to inspire hopes of early suco The discovery of a rtrata of genuine fire rock and a seven-foot bed of clay free from all grit, also the indispensable slate stone, give the strongest indications of a bed of coal not far fr.m the surface, THE TOWN OF DILLER Diller is sitnated on the E on what was the Otoe India s r t cor er, 14 miles e; airbury, the county seat of Jefferson ‘and 18 miles west of Wymore, Th»hmn was laid ont one year azo last September, by the *Lincoln Land Com- “and has a population of ab ut 100 ants. There four stores that cueral stocl goods, two s, on2 furniturestor house, a lun a meat marl lmndw and a bil iard hall, all doin Dusiness. The townis sit ated in the midst of as ally for good a farming and stock country as can Do found any where, Tie laud on the ‘reserve” is mostly occupied DLy netual ttlers, but to the north and west is Leld mostly’ by speculators and is now in market. The prairie is here for some of th finest farms in the state, and cau be bough on goud terms. There is tome timber, and good i uilding stone is found in many place’, and water—when not on top of the grouud -is easily obtained. ns wishing a home cannot do better to ¢ me.and see ths country 1 efore Mr. D. R. Kelley i “nt for mpany. and F. M. Timblin for quiries dire ted to_cither of them will be promptly answe; e SCRIBLER. RAILROAD NO!ES. The Denver & Rio Grande now operates 1,025 miles of road. Automatic brakes for freight trains are being introduced on several southwestern roads, The fflntrll Pacific railroad braces 2,723 miles of road and 65! steamship 1 nes, The position of awistant general mar- ager of the Atchison, Topera & Santa Fo rond has been abolished, T'he Denver & Rio Grande railway has 130 new locomotives in process f con- struction at the Baldwin and Graut works, The Louisville, New Albany & Chicago, now owned by the Louisville & Nashville is preparing fy-r an entrance into Chicago. President Villard, of the Northern Pa- cific, has just had built the finest palace car in the world, It is elaborately finished in mahogany and rosewood, with ionld pes platedin . old: Grading on the Des Moine« Northwe-t. e iv going torward between Fouda, in Pocahontas county, and Rockwell City, as fast as possible, Lt ix expected to reach Fouda by January 1. Trains are now rann'ng to Jeffers'm, in Greene county and will be «xtended s fast : 5 the r npleted. The Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific road haviog three thousand three hundred n:iles of roads, have not an average tw . calls a day for pi Vaggage claimed to have gone astray, and in the It two years have not paid for a piece of baggage lost through the ca-elessness of the employes of the hagy: ge department The traffic mmnumnent be'ween the At hison, To eka Fe and St. Lows & San Fraicis o, whereby t latter is offered every fac lity for (oing Colorado and New Mexico busines:, went into effect on the 10th inst. It runs for twenty years, and puts the San Francisco road where it can compete successfully tem em- miles of & The Chicago, Milw ukee & St, Paul R. 13,240 men, to whom it y ieregate 87,180,853, is an average of 842,85 sa ary to each. It equipment of rolling stock is 470 lc tiyes, 187 140 baggage, mail express, and sleeping, 15,72 reight, a i other cars, making a total of 16,308 cars each. Ticket Agent Barnes of the Northern Pycitic is recciving responsas to his eircu- lar relating to clergymen’s permits, The fllowing was returned to him from an agent out West: “I am sorry to imform you that we are entirely without a Chris- tian leader. There i« certainly a wide field for some worthy elder, for” we have turned out ten st ffs here during the past fow wonths, and eight of them passed in their checks with their boots on oneer-Press railroad review shows that six companies in the northwest con- structed 2,081 miles of 1oad during the year, against 1,478 last year. The roads enumerated ave as follows: Northern Pa. o and leased lines, 4 Paul, miles; Chicago, 524; Chicago, ) Edwin 0, T ...x.n.n Py of Des Moines, a ar to have e oads, As directors, h ce of the incorporation of eight ditferent companies to ¢ ustruet a road across Towa, The capital of each company is $1,0 0,000, with privil . The ob ross Lthe state arg ¢ s to construct, or other means of transportation and operate telegraph i Tribune DEWEY & STONE, FURNITURE! T fi'E\N G don s £ ORCHARD&BEAN JB FRENCH & CO., CARPETSIGROGCERS!I CARPETS HAVE DECLINED SLIGHLTY ———AND: J. B. Detwiler Is the first to make the announce- ment to his customers and the general public. MATTINGS, OIL GLOTH AND WINDOW SHADES, Always sold at the lowest Market Prices. We carry the largest stock and make the Lowest Prices. Orders promptly filled and every attention given to patrons. J. B. DETWILER, 13183 Farnham Street. OMAHA, - - - - NEBRASKA. SAXE’'S OPERA HOUSE PHARMAGY, Corner 16th and Farnham Sts. (BOYD'S OPERA HOUSE) MOST ELEGANT SELECTION OF Holiday Goods TO BE FOUND IN TH:< MARK . T Now on Exhibition and Selling Very Rapidly. EVERYTHING NEW AND FRESH ! Call and See for Yourself. D W. S AXTH, Proprietor. DOUEBLE AND SINGLE ACOTING POWER AND HAND PUMPSI Steam Pumps, Engine Trimmings, BEUTING, TIOSE, BRASS AND IRON FITTINGS, PIPE, BTEA: PACKING, AT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. HALLADAY WIND-MILLS, CHURCH AND SCHOOL BELLS A. L. STRANC, 206 Farnam §t.,, Omah MINING MACHINERY, - W